Judah's Lion

By Anne Caston

Poetry. In this second collection of poems, Anne Caston struggles with reason and faith and the "whole thorn-torn mess a world can sometimes be." The poems consider humanness in all its extremes and they do not flinch or look away, even when the speaker herself stands at the "frayed rope-end of hope." JUDAH'S LION, in the end, is a book of redemption and the necessary compassion we need to face the beauty and terror of our lives.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0915380714
• ISBN13: 9780915380718
• Release Date: September 2009
• Publisher: Word Works
• Length: 98 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.6" x 8.1"

Customer Reviews

JUDAH'S LION is a Gold Standard in Poetry

Anne Caston has long been one of this country's leading poets. Her previous book FLYING OUT WITH THE WOUNDED marked a hallmark on courage; and, language fashioned to meet the elegance of that highest human attribute. Courage in writing is to find the truth in our lives that may be hard to say. Excellence in writing is to say that truth in a way that everyone is more able to access their own lives. This takes a precision of craft and a use of the line that makes it belong to the reader and not the writer.An amazing story is told here,told in a way that many poets would yearn to accomplish.